Dress-form support.



U. LEWIS.

DRESS FORM SUPPORT.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 10, 1913.

Patented May 19, 1914.

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UA LEWIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 MAJESTIC DRESS FORM COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

DRESS-FORM SUPPORT.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 10, 1913.

Patented May 1.9, 1914. Serial No. 753,170.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, UA LEWIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dress-Form Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to supports for dress forms and has for its principal ob ect to provide a novel and improved device for supporting a dress form which may be readily adjusted to position the form at a desired height and in a desired position and which, when the form is not in use, may be arranged largely within the body so that the form and the support will occupy a mini mum storage space.

A further object of the invention is to provide a support which will permit the form to be adjusted in accordance with the normal position assumed by the person for whom the garment is being made. Many persons normally lean forwardly and many others backwardly, rendering it extremely diflicult to properly fit a skirt to them which has been made upon a form held always in erect position, for if the wearer habitually lean forwardly, the front of the skirt will be too low and the back too high, and if she lean backwardly, the front will be too high and the back too low.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a support which will permit the form body to be lowered sufficiently to permit a waist or other short garment to be fitted thereto without necessitating that the dress-maker or tailor making the garment rise from her seat at the work-table or sewing machine.

Further objects and advantages of the in vention will be apparent as it is better understood from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings illustrating a preferred embodiment thereof.

On the drawings-Figure 1 is a sectional view of a form body and support embodying my invention, Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a partial vertical sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, the reference character 5 designates a dress form of any preferred construction. Within this form are provided horizontal supporting and bracing members 6 and 7 with which the support proper is engaged, the member 6 being located in the neck of the form and the member 7 being disposed just beneath the hips.

The support proper comprises primarily a hollow supporting pipe or tube 8, a stiffening and guiding rod 9 and a clamp 11, although the members 6 and 7 may also be considered to form part thereof. The pipe 8 is provided at its bottom with a plurality of outstanding legs 12, adapted to rest upon the floor to afford a substantial base for the form and the rod 9 is secured at its upper end in the horizontal member 6. In the present instance, the upper end of the rod is disposed through an aperture 13 in substantially the center of the member 6 and nuts 14; and 15 threaded upon the ends of the rod are brought into engagement with the opposite faces of the horizontal member to fasten the end of the rod thereto. The lower end of the rod telescopically engaged within the sup porting pipe 8, the upper end of which projects through an elongated aperture or slot 10 extending from front to rear in the lower horizontal member 7. The clamp 11 comprises a sleeve embracing the supporting pipe 8 and a plate adjustably secured to the under face of the lower horizontal member 7 by means of a pair of thumb screws 17 passing through elongated slots 19 in the plate and taking into the member 7. It will be noted by viewing Fig. 1 that the guiding rod 9 is of suflicient length to extend beneath the bottom member 7 so that the telescopic connection between the rod 9 and the pipe 8 will not be broken even when the clamp is positioned at its maximum height on the pipe 8. A thumbscrew 18 in the clamp serves to secure the clamp and consequently the form at any preferred height above the legs 12. The telescopic connection between the rod 9 and the supporting pipe 8 maintains the neck or top of the form always above and in line with the pipe 8 and serves to stiffen the connection between the pipe and the form.

The form is made to tilt either forwardly or rcarwarclly to adjust it with respect to the vertical by adjusting the bottom horizontal member 7 forwardly or rearwardly with respect to the clamp 11, the adjustment being possible by reason of the elongated slots 19 through which the thumbscrews 17 are dis posed. With this arrangement the adjustment of the bottom of the form may be made by loosening the thumbscrews 17 pulling the bottom of the form toward the rear or toward the front so that the bottom slides upon the clamp into the desired relationship therewith. By tightening the thumbscrews 17 the form will be held in adjusted position. The upper end of the rod maintains, as has been said, the neck or top of the form di rectly over the supporting member so that the adjustment just described will cause the form to be moved through an are about the upper horizontal member 6 as a center.

In order that the thumbscrews 17 and 18 may be easily accessible the form is cut away opposite the thumbscrew 18 as seen at position shown in full lines in Fi 1 i may not be placed upon the rod 9 when the bottom is moved from the normal vertical the aperture 13 through themembcr 6 may be tapered from substantially the center of the member to its ends as shown at 21. This however, is not thought to be essential as a loose connection between the end of the rod and this member will permit sufiicient movement of the form to effect the desired adj ustments. 7 r

When it is desired to storethe form it is only necessary to loosen the thumbscrew 18 so that the stiffening rod 9 and the form may slide downwardly until the bottom of the form comes in contact with the legs 12.

It will be apparent that a waist or short coat may be fitted to the formby a dressmaker or tailor seated at a sewing table or elsewhere without rising by lowering the form until it rests upon the legs 12, and the form may be secured at any intermediate heightv for the fitting of other garments shorter than full length gowns and coats.

It is thought that the invention and many of its attendant advantages will be understood from the foregoing description and it is apparent that numerous changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention or sacrificing any of its material advantages.

1 claim: 1

1. A dress form support comprising a hollow member supported from the floor and extending upwardly within the form, a

stiffening rod secured to the top of the form and freely telescoping within the hollow member, and means carried by the form for adjustably securing the hollow member to the form.

A dress form support comprising a supporting element and a stiffening element telescoping at adjacent ends, the said stiffening element being secured at one end withm and to the top of the form and having its other end extending to adjacent the bottom of the form, and means carried by the form and slidably embracing the said supporting member for rigidly fastening the supporting, member to the bottom of the form 111 desired vertically adjusted position.

3. A. dress form. support comprising a stiffening member and a supporting member telescoping at adjacent ends, the upper end of the said stiffening member being secured to the top of the form to maintain the said top of the form vertically, above the said supporting member, and a member embracing the said supporting member and adjustably secured to the bottom of the form whereby the bottom of the said form may be moved about a point adjacent the upper end of said stifiening member to tilt th form into a desired position. I

4. A: dress form support, comprlsmg a stiffening member and a supporting member telescoping at adjacent ends, the said stiffening member being secured at the top of the form to maintain the top of the form vertically above said supporting member, and means movably secured to the'saidsupporting member and movably secured to the bot tom of the form, the movement of the said.

means with respect to the supporting member serving to EIClJUSlJ the form vertically and the movement of the means with respect to the bottom of the form serving to tilt the.

form about its connection with said stiffening member as a center to ad ust the form in tilted position.

5. A dress form support comprising a horizontal member ri idly secured in the form adjacent its top, a horizontal member rigidly secured in the form adjacent its bottom, a stiffening element secured in the top horizontal member and passing through a slot in the bottom horizontal member, a

clamp mounted beneath. the said bottom horizontal member, and a supporting element telescoping with the lower end of the stiffening element and disposed through the said clamp.

6. A dress form support comprising a slot-ted horizontal member rigidly secured within the bottom of the form, a stifiening.

member disposed through the slot in the bottom member, means for supporting the said stiffening member within the top of the' form, a supporting member disposed through the slot and telescoping with the said stiffening member, and a slotted clamp embracing the said members at their telescopic connection and adapted to be locked to the said supporting member to secure the form at a desired height, and means disposed through the slot of the said clamp engaging the said bottom member for adjusting the clamp with respect to the bottom member to tilt the form at a desired angle with the Vertical.

7. A dress form support comprising horizontal top and bottom members secured in the form, the said top member being provided with an aperture therethrough and the said bottom member having an elongated slot extending parallel to the sides of the form, a stiffening member secured in the aperture of the upper horizontal member and disposed through the said slot in the bottom horizontal member, a supporting member telescoping with the lower end of the stiffening member and extending upwardly in the form, and a clamp having parallel slots therein secured beneath the said horizontal member with the slots on each side of and parallel to the slot in the said bottom member, and means disposed through the slots of the clamp for adjustably securing the clamp to the bottom horizontal member. 8. A dress form support comprising an upper stiffening member suspended from the top of the form and fastened therein, a lower supporting member extending upwardly within the form into engagement with the stiffening member, said stiffening member and said supporting member together forming an extensible support for said form, and means carried by the form for seeming said form to said supporting member at the bottom of the form.

UA. LEl/VIS.

Witnesses J. C. CARPENTGR, F. M. WARDEN.

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